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Dr. Heimlich's New 'Maneuver': Cure AIDS With

Malaria
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The famed inventor of the

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maneuver, Dr. Henry
Heimlich, is now proposing
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"We allow the malaria to run for three weeks, and then we
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In a study commissioned by Dr. Heimlich, eight human
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Mansion, Silence China in the 1990s, and he is now involved with a research
project involving AIDS patients in Ethiopia who are initially
left untreated for malaria with available medicines.

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"For the last 30 years, my
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of discredited, experimental,
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are either useless, dangerous or crackpot," Heimlich's second
son, Peter, said in an interview to be broadcast Friday on
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"20/20."
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May 2008 In a family feud that is playing out like a Greek tragedy, the
son has waged a five-year campaign on the Internet to
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denounce his father and his medical theories.
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"I don't think I am a bad son," Peter Heimlich said. "If you
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care about somebody, you don't let them hurt themselves or
January 2008 hurt others."
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The son says he has no question about the effectiveness of
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the maneuver his father invented to save choking victims,
October 2007 but that his father is trading on its reputation.
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"And I think that reputation has allowed him to proceed and
give him kind of a halo and give him cover to promote all
these other dangerous ideas," the younger Heimlich says.

Among them, says the Heimlich son, is his father's efforts to

get the choking maneuver used to treat asthma, cystic
fibrosis and near drowning victims.

No major medical group has endorsed such uses, and

leading emergency medicine experts say the use of the
maneuver as a first response on drowning victims could be
dangerous.

Dr. Peter Rosen, the author of a report for the National

Academy of Sciences, says unconscious victims could sustain
damage to their livers if the Heimlich maneuver is performed
on them.

"It would be very, very easy, especially in a child, to tear the

right lobe of the liver, and then the child would die of
hemorrhage," Dr. Rosen told "20/20."

Dr. Heimlich declined to speak with "20/20," but two of his

other children defended their father and criticized their
brother Peter.

"It was a very painful thing for my parents," said eldest son
Phil Heimlich, a former public official in Cincinnati.

He said his brother Peter had initially used pseudonyms to

post his attacks on the Internet and in e-mails.

"That was bad enough, but when it turns out to be your son,
I think it was a very, very difficult thing for my folks to take,"
Phil Heimlich said.

"I haven't found anything he said that has any real credibility
to it," he said, referring to his brother Peter. "My father,
because he's a pioneer, has always been criticized, attacked
by the medical establishment whenever he's come out with
one of his major discoveries."

Dr. Heimlich's theory to use malaria to cure AIDS, he said,

simply builds on the work of a doctor who won the Nobel
Prize in 1927 for using malaria to treat syphilis.

"There are some Nobel prizes they would like to take back,
and I believe that's one of them," said Dr. Fauci. "It's a
dangerous thing to do. It just seems inexplicable to me that
he is doing this."

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